Lassen County Biographies
Dr. P. Chamberlin
Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Nov. 2004
This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm
He was born on the fourteenth of January, 1824, in Susquehanna county,
Pennsylvania. He moved with his parents to Rock Island county, Illinois, in
1833. In 1834 they crossed the Mississippi river into what was then the
territory of Wisconsin, and which has since become Scott county, Iowa. Dr.
Chamberlin was married in Davenport, Iowa, January 12, 1848, to Miss Mary A.
Hill. During the summer he moved back to Jackson county, Iowa. He crossed the
plains with his wife and son in 1852, locating in Washington county, Oregon. He
moved to Plumas county, California, in the spring of 1855, and became a resident
of Honey Lake valley in May, 1859, where he has since resided with his family.
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from
1513 to 1850. � Fariss and Smith, San Francisco, 1882. p 403